The question is if the taxes are computed depending on the price you had to pay for the software or on what the software is worth. The later one could be used against Open Source, that is cheap to buy but very valuable.
RFC 3514 already introduces the evil bit. So it should be easy to extend this RFC and also introduce a "porn bit". Tagged packets should be easy to filter out with a proper configured packet filter and there shouldn't be any fuss about proxies and so on...
SCNR this one, so don't mod me down for not knowing that RFC3514 is an april fools day joke.
and because of that owner of government accounts are excluded from the ban of email services. Maybe they are "more equal" than others... or somebody doesn't want to hurt them otherwise they could start thinking why the patent system is so stupid...
Progress (n.): The process through which the Internet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
That will make the help desk people happy
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Long time ago I my job was end user support for a our company office. It was when Microsoft switched from Winword 1.1 to Winword 2.0. If I would have got a dollar for ever question of the kind "once there was a menu/function/whatever in this menu, where is it now" then I would be rich now!
Well, luckily that job is history and I can watch the chaos from far away.:-)
But of course, if you can't offer new functions you need to change the user interface so that it at least looks new.
Let me try to remember what I heard on the speech of Florian Schießl at the LinuxTag 2005.
User resistance: people like to stay with what they know rather than being pushed to use something unfamiliar.
True. To convince the users they did a sort of "tournee" through all departments and showed them how Linux looks like. And they got some funny feedback like "I didn't expect to see a GUI".
Extensive use of MS Office only features such as VBA or features that work differently in Open Office.
True. One of the biggest problem is a custom installed VBA something installed by a "primadonna". Its a hard job to convince the people to change to something completely new.
Applications using Active-X or other COM controls that are not easily converted to WINE or similar.
I have no details on that, but it could be an issue as well.
Third party software products that are only supported under Windows.
According to Mr. Schießl they contacted all their software vendors who provide specific applications and asked them if a Linux port is available or if they can port it to Linux. The feedback to this action was very little so Munich needs to find new partners that are able to provide Linux apps as well.
What else?
Mr. Schießl pointed out that switching is not that easy since the service that the municipality is offering has to remain "online". People would get a lot annoyed if they couldn't register for a car number plate because the city is switching to Linux. So they have to develop a strategy that does the move, but transparent to the citizen that expects full availability of the services.
One other issue could be that since the Munich solution is based on Debian and Debian did the transition from Woody to Sarge recently that might affect the schedule as well. Maybe there are some dependencies on custom software that need to be adjusted to the new environment now. Even if I think that shouldn't be a big deal we need to keep it in mind.
As far as I understood the speech of Florian Schießl (project leader in Munich) on the LinuxTag 2005 they are using a Debian based solution. So there is no need to figure out how to install Slackware.
Sorry folks, but I don't get it yet. Reading even the article I don't know what they are talking about.
Novell bought SUSE and now offers the following products:
SUSE Linux Professional (which is the boxed product). This product is not supported, there is only a basic installation support available, but if you run into worse problems than its just bad luck for you. So if the article says "If schools want to have a Linux desktop now they can have one from a major international corporation with the support that brings rather than a free copy of (Linux distribution) Mandrake." then they can't refer to SUSE Linux Professional.
The desktop product from Novell is called Novell Linux Desktop (NLD). This product gets support, but AFAIK the price point for NLD is around $50, so it looks a bit strange to read "The Novell deals lets schools buy software for the same cost as Microsoft products, about $99 per product per server for a year-long licence." especially because they now refer to a "per server" license (for a desktop product).
What is also looking very strange to me is the emphasis of the name SUSE. If you visited the LinuxTag2005 in Germany then you would have noticed that there were not much traces of the brand "SUSE" any more and the Novell presence was limited to one PC at the HP pavillion. That gave a very clear impression that Novell is trying hard to get the name SUSE out of the head of the people, and now not even 4 weeks later they sell SUSE Linux to New Zealand? I'm a bit puzzled.
So I can install wmweather on my desktop and get information about how the weather is outside since I don't see it from my cubicle. Even if it looks a bit weird that I get weather data for a city in Germany from a site in the United States.:-)
how can it be, that because some idiot of operator doesn't know how to read logs a police squad is going after someone and arresting him?
This is no fun at all. If its that easy to get someone in trouble and if there is no control instance (usually a judge) that approves such actions, then we are in greater danger than we ever exepected.
The aren't exempt from the law; they have negotiated with the publishers for permission to make copies.
No, they negotiated to break the law that says you're not allowed to crack copy protection. If I give you the permission to break into my house its still a criminal act if you do so. And every police officer will ask: "If he gave you access permission to his house, why didn't he give you a housekey?".
So, if content industry wants to give copy permission to someone they have to give them unprotected material, otherwise the copying party is still breaking applicable law!
Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials?:-)
Or do I have a wrong translation of "programming"? Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, but the use of "programming" instead of "broadcasting" looks a bit strange to me.
First, one of the benefits of bar codes is that you don't have to put individual price tags on items anymore.
From a sellers perspective this looks good. But: Customers want to know the prices and so you have to put a price tag anyway or you have to employ somebody that answers the customers questions about the price. Nice idea, eh?
Surely barcodes have benefits when you have a supermarket and you just put one price tag at a box full of the same products. But even that can cause trouble if the price tag on the box shows a different price from what your cashier will charge using the scanner.
Here in Germany that wouldn't be a problem. We have a law that enforces something that we call "Buchpreisbindung" and that means you get the book at the same price in all stores.
... but in my county you have to pay money to send photos from a cell phone to someone. So instead of spending my money on products I'm asked to spend my money on getting the price for the products? That looks quite strange to me.:-)
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The question is if the taxes are computed depending on the price you had to pay for the software or on what the software is worth. The later one could be used against Open Source, that is cheap to buy but very valuable.
... a book like "how do I protect my website from being slashdotted" :-)
SCNR this one, so don't mod me down for not knowing that RFC3514 is an april fools day joke.
and because of that owner of government accounts are excluded from the ban of email services.
Maybe they are "more equal" than others... or somebody doesn't want to hurt them otherwise they could start thinking why the patent system is so stupid...
Progress (n.): The process through which the Internet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
Long time ago I my job was end user support for a our company office. It was when Microsoft switched from Winword 1.1 to Winword 2.0. If I would have got a dollar for ever question of the kind "once there was a menu/function/whatever in this menu, where is it now" then I would be rich now!
:-)
Well, luckily that job is history and I can watch the chaos from far away.
But of course, if you can't offer new functions you need to change the user interface so that it at least looks new.
Let me try to remember what I heard on the speech of Florian Schießl at the LinuxTag 2005.
User resistance: people like to stay with what they know rather than being pushed to use something unfamiliar.
True. To convince the users they did a sort of "tournee" through all departments and showed them how Linux looks like. And they got some funny feedback like "I didn't expect to see a GUI".
Extensive use of MS Office only features such as VBA or features that work differently in Open Office.
True. One of the biggest problem is a custom installed VBA something installed by a "primadonna". Its a hard job to convince the people to change to something completely new.
Applications using Active-X or other COM controls that are not easily converted to WINE or similar.
I have no details on that, but it could be an issue as well.
Third party software products that are only supported under Windows.
According to Mr. Schießl they contacted all their software vendors who provide specific applications and asked them if a Linux port is available or if they can port it to Linux. The feedback to this action was very little so Munich needs to find new partners that are able to provide Linux apps as well.
What else?
Mr. Schießl pointed out that switching is not that easy since the service that the municipality is offering has to remain "online". People would get a lot annoyed if they couldn't register for a car number plate because the city is switching to Linux. So they have to develop a strategy that does the move, but transparent to the citizen that expects full availability of the services.
One other issue could be that since the Munich solution is based on Debian and Debian did the transition from Woody to Sarge recently that might affect the schedule as well. Maybe there are some dependencies on custom software that need to be adjusted to the new environment now. Even if I think that shouldn't be a big deal we need to keep it in mind.
As far as I understood the speech of Florian Schießl (project leader in Munich) on the LinuxTag 2005 they are using a Debian based solution. So there is no need to figure out how to install Slackware.
I can't imagine waiting for Gentoo to compile on 30,000 PCs.
Especially since Munich is going to use a Debian based solution...
Somebody actually read all that crap before clicking OK?
No. The question is if that sort of "license" is valid according to the laws in your country.
Sorry folks, but I don't get it yet. Reading even the article I don't know what they are talking about.
Novell bought SUSE and now offers the following products:
What is also looking very strange to me is the emphasis of the name SUSE. If you visited the LinuxTag2005 in Germany then you would have noticed that there were not much traces of the brand "SUSE" any more and the Novell presence was limited to one PC at the HP pavillion. That gave a very clear impression that Novell is trying hard to get the name SUSE out of the head of the people, and now not even 4 weeks later they sell SUSE Linux to New Zealand? I'm a bit puzzled.
So I can install wmweather on my desktop and get information about how the weather is outside since I don't see it from my cubicle. Even if it looks a bit weird that I get weather data for a city in Germany from a site in the United States. :-)
That means if the TV sets go dark on new year's eve 2006 the US is expecting a baby boom in autumn 2006.
how can it be, that because some idiot of operator doesn't know how to read logs a police squad is going after someone and arresting him?
This is no fun at all. If its that easy to get someone in trouble and if there is no control instance (usually a judge) that approves such actions, then we are in greater danger than we ever exepected.
None of the links in the article has a "nofollow" attribute. But all the links look sort of weird anyway. Example:
2 F% 2Fwww.livejournal.com%2F" LiveJournal
;-)
href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%
Does that mean Google is applying another strategy against content spam?
No, they negotiated to break the law that says you're not allowed to crack copy protection. If I give you the permission to break into my house its still a criminal act if you do so. And every police officer will ask: "If he gave you access permission to his house, why didn't he give you a housekey?". So, if content industry wants to give copy permission to someone they have to give them unprotected material, otherwise the copying party is still breaking applicable law!
Then your dog must have changed his name right today since I can't login as user "Spudley" with the password "Pchg65Lb"...
...to defend themselves better against SCO. :-)
BTW: What would happen to the buyer of the PC Business... will he be sued by SCO as well?
At least some people in UK believed that they had to send them money. :-)
Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials? :-)
Or do I have a wrong translation of "programming"? Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, but the use of "programming" instead of "broadcasting" looks a bit strange to me.
...to replace the insecure copies of Windows XP with secure ones? ;-)
From a sellers perspective this looks good. But: Customers want to know the prices and so you have to put a price tag anyway or you have to employ somebody that answers the customers questions about the price. Nice idea, eh?
Surely barcodes have benefits when you have a supermarket and you just put one price tag at a box full of the same products. But even that can cause trouble if the price tag on the box shows a different price from what your cashier will charge using the scanner.
Here in Germany that wouldn't be a problem. We have a law that enforces something that we call "Buchpreisbindung" and that means you get the book at the same price in all stores.
... but in my county you have to pay money to send photos from a cell phone to someone. So instead of spending my money on products I'm asked to spend my money on getting the price for the products? That looks quite strange to me. :-)